Curry-comb



(No Model.) I G. W. KING.

Curry Comb.

No. 241,546. Patented May 17,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. KING, OF GEORGETOWN, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

CURRY-COMB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,546, dated May 17, 1881.

7 Application filed April 5, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. KING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Georgetown, District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curry- Oombs; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form apart of this specification.

My invention relates to sectional currycombs so formed in passing through the manufacturing-stamp that they require no other device, appliance, or attachment to make perfeet than to properly place together. The ob ject is to provide a curry-comb of a simple and inexpensive construction, at same time light, strong, durable, effective, and of such an elastic capacity that its rubbing-surface will conform to the contour or irregular surface of the horse.

The invention consists in the employment of a simple bent plate with a projecting eyepiece and a lock-piece, through which eye-piece the look-piece of another bent plate isinter. laced and thereby locked. It is illustrated in bent plates, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view of the comb.

Figs. 1 and 3, B is a handle or thumb-piece, and D a rest or handle for the little finger, also used as a final lock-piece.

Fig. 2 shows the bent plate provided with slot a, projecting eye-piece 1), eye or slot to, and key or look piece I).

The comb is held in the hand by placing the thumb under the curved piece B, the little finger under the curved piece D, and the palm of the hand resting on the top or back of the comb.

The'jointing'together of the bent plates to form the curry-comb is as followsi The lockpiece I) is inserted in a slot in the handle B, and the end of the handlebent upthrough slot to of bent plate. The end of handle B is formed in shape like the eye-piece b on the bent plate. The second bent plate is placed in position by inserting its lock-piece I) through the eye or slot a, and the two plates pressed together, and thereby causing the eye-piece b of the first bent plate to pass through the slot at of the second bent plate, and locking or securing the first bent plate thereby. The third bent plate is then placed in position byinsertin g its lockpiece 12 through the eye a of the first bent plate, and the second and third plates pressed together, securing the second plate, and so on until the last plate is placed in position, when the lock or finger piece D is inserted through the eyes a of the last two plates, thus securing the whole. These bent plates consist of a single piece, and may be stamped at one blow from a single sheet and corrugated, it so desired.

The size of the comb may be varied by the addition of more or less bent plates.

The lock-piece D can be dispensed with, and the eye-piece bin next to last plate bent down as a substitute.

What lclaim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a curry-comb, the combination of a bent tooth-plate, O, projections 12, in which is out the eye a, and lock-piece b, substantially as described.

2. A curry-comb consisting of bent plates adapted to be secured to each other by means of the interlacing through eyes or slots, all substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W. KING. Witnesses:

H. (J. CRAIG, A. B. J AOKSON. 

